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An education in professional resilience

Dr Kryss Macleod examines how legal educators and the profession are responding to the greater visibility of mental health in young lawyers and how building resilience is vital

Tackling tech when law firms merge

An acquisition and integration strategy is vital for law firms going down the M&A route, as Stephen Brown explains

Digital badge: SRA and thousands of firms 'in breach' of law

A formal complaint about the solicitors' regulator has been sent to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following its demand that all firms display the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) digital badge on their websites.

'Insensitive' decision to rule out double jeopardy law change

The decision by government not to support calls for changes to the double jeopardy rule to safeguard children has been condemned by the law firm campaigning for the law to be changed.

Britain will flourish as global legal centre despite Brexit, says Law Society

Britain will continue to be an attractive place to do business whatever the outcome of Brexit, the Law Society of England and Wales said.

It's all in the STARs.

It's all in the STARs The SRA Standards and Regulations have arrived and solicitors and firms must be able to justify their decisions if they want to demonstrate compliance, says Tracey Calvert

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND THE ASSUMPTION OF A DUTY OF CARE

A public authority can assume responsibility towards someone by inference from its conduct towards them, as Laurence Toczek explains following the Supreme Court's re-evaluation of the Caparo test

Senior circuit judge rapped for 'intemperate language' and bias